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Speaker 1: Now on another subject, was announced yesterday that police are

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Speaker 1: going to get more powers to crack down on boy races,

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Speaker 1: including the ability to destroy more vehicles. A new government

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Speaker 1: bill includes a presumptive sentence for vehicle destruction or forfeiture

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Speaker 1: for drivers who flee police. Now, Bernie Wandon is the

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Speaker 1: hard Offen wo A district mayor, and he's with us. Hey, Bernie,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. You hear that you pleased to see this?

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Speaker 2: Definitely, yes, can't come soon enough.

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Speaker 1: Is it still happening in your part of town?

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Speaker 2: Look, it hasn't happened since our major event. We've had

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Speaker 2: a couple of smaller events, but it's nearly a year

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Speaker 2: ago since our major event, and we certainly don't want

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Speaker 2: to see it back again. And hopefully this sort of,

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Speaker 2: you know, implementation of this sort of policy will be

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Speaker 2: a deterrent for them all.

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Speaker 1: The major event was that the ones where they were

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Speaker 1: encroaching on the cops and the cops were having bottles

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Speaker 1: thrown at them and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: That's right, the police were underprepared basically for what was

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Speaker 2: going to happen. I think police have made great strides

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Speaker 2: since then ensuring that they've got resources and ability to

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Speaker 2: be able to defend themselves and make sure and disperse

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Speaker 2: these people.

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Speaker 1: How do you think this is going to work, Burnie?

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Speaker 1: Are they going to are the cops going to rock

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Speaker 1: up right down license plates and chase these people afterwards,

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Speaker 1: or do they have to actually seize the vehicle on

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Speaker 1: the spot.

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Speaker 2: What I like about a lot of this sort of

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Speaker 2: policy is the fact that they will try and stop

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Speaker 2: things from happening right from the start. So I would

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Speaker 2: imagine that there will be if they're aware of convoys

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Speaker 2: coming into different towns, they'll be able to stop them.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully the prevention will actually be a big part

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Speaker 2: of the whole policy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the bit that I'm interested in is crushing

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Speaker 1: the cars on the first warning. Now do you think

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Speaker 1: that would be enough to deter me from doing boy

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Speaker 1: racy stuff? But do you think it will determ them?

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Speaker 1: Because I mean, this must be their hobby.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is their hobby and unfortunately, look the car enthurs. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: it will deter them. It's the if you like the

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Speaker 2: idiots that still want to challenge police, challenge social norms

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Speaker 2: and do what you know is against the you know,

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Speaker 2: the policy, and that's the worrying bit that it may

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Speaker 2: well not stop those, but I think once it's done once,

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Speaker 2: hopefully that'll send the strong message that it won't happen again.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant stuff, Hey, Bernie, thank you very much appreciated, as

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